Chapter 1 An Overview of Sociolinguistics in England

Chapter 2 Urban Literacies and Processes of Supralocalisation: A Historical Sociolinguistic Perspective

Chapter 3 Social Change, Linguistic Change and Sociolinguistic Change in Received Pronunciation

Chapter 4 The Changing Language of Urban Youth: A Pilot Study

Chapter 5 Stylisation and the Dynamics of Migration, Ethnicity and Class

Chapter 6 The Perceptual Dialectology of England

Chapter 7 Variation and Change in Varieties of British Sign Language in England

Chapter 8 Language Change and Innovation in London: Multicultural London English

Chapter 10 Pit Talk in the East Midlands

Chapter 11 Studying Intonation in Varieties of English: Gender and Individual Variation in Liverpool

Chapter 12 Peripheral Communities and Innovation: Changes in the goose Vowel in a West Cumbrian Town

Chapter 13 ‘Doing Cornishness’ in the English Periphery: Embodying Ideology Through Anglo-Cornish Dialect Lexis

Chapter 14 Residual Rhoticity and Emergent r-sandhi in the North West and South West of England: Different Approaches to Hiatus-Resolution?